Most events are installed on their deadline date, unless there is a long submission window or unless it's a rolling submission.

P=Poetry, N=Nonfiction, F=Fiction

 
 
 
 

  • ECW Press Best New Speculative Novel Contest

    Through Google Forms - see link on ECW

    Genre: Speculative Fiction Entry Fee: None Deadline: October 31, 2021 Prize: $3,000 and a publishing contract Description: ECW Press is seeking entries of unpublished novel manuscripts in English between 40,000 and 150,000 words by a Canadian author in the science fiction, fantasy, or speculative fiction genres. Details: https://ecwpress.com/blogs/whats-new/ecw-press-best-new-speculative-novel-contest

  • F – CBC Short Story Prize

    Through Submittable

    Short Story (up to 2,500 words; fiction)* Competition opens: September 1, 2021 Deadline: October 31, 2021 *(Word count includes all words contained in the work including but not limited to titles, footnotes, introductions, etc. Submissions over the specified word count will be disqualified.) Our word limits are strict in each category. To calculate word counts, […]

    $25
  • P – Speckled Trout Review

    Speckled Trout Review

    Call for submissions: Fall 2021 (3.2) Childhood memories (print issue)Submission window opens September 1, closing November 1.

  • Sunspot Literary Journal – WRITING A NEW WORLD

    Through Journal's own submission portal

    We welcome prose from flash fiction and poetry to stories and essays, including scripts and screenplays, up to 49,000 words.

  • James Hurst Poetry Prize

    North American Review

    We are especially interested in work that addresses contemporary North American concerns and issues, particularly with the environment, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and class.

    $23
  • Reed Magazine’s Edwin Markham Prize for Poetry

    Through Submittable

    the Edwin Markham Prize honors outstanding works of poetry. Our taste is eclectic and celebrates the wonderful diversity of forms, styles, and levels of diction available to the contemporary poet.

    $20
  • The Foster Poetry Prize 2021

    Through Submittable

    Participating poets can be any age, but must not have published a full-length book of poetry.

    $26
  • The Malahat Review’s OPEN SEASON AWARDS

    Through Submittable

    The Malahat Review invites entries for its annual Open Season Awards in: poetry, short fiction and creative nonfiction.

    $35
  • Room’s 2021 Short Forms Contest

    Room Magazine , Canada

    Each entry can consist of one or two prose poems, flash fictions, or flash creative non-fiction works of up to 500 words.

    $35
  • PF – Nixed Mate

    Through Journal's own submission portal

    We are looking for work that addresses, directly, or indirectly, climate change and humanity’s impact on the environment.

  • P – Harpur Palate – Poetry

    Harpur Palate Literary Journal

    Harpur Palate accepts original, previously unpublished poems in any style, form, or genre.

    $18